QA Engineer Cloud Services - (KT0223)

Quality engineering is about design, development and the implementation of complex automation functionality. The role is an engineering position, focused on delivering quality. You have to be comfortable with only initial manual testing of new features, primarily so you have the understanding to correctly architect and implement the automation you want to build. You have a strong background in object-oriented programming concepts and constructs (JavaScript, Ruby, Java, et al). You will need to identify missing test cases and refine existing code for modularity and automation purposes, estimate and prioritize work for optimal risk mitigation and identify suitable regression suites.
 
You must actually like to break things, be exhilarated when you discover that really complicated defect and provide enough details that the team can act on them and then help to develop the resolution. You have to be self directed, team oriented, and actually know and care about what our users are trying to accomplish by using our products.
 
Responsibilitlies:

• This role isn't quality assurance in the traditional black-box testing sense, think development operations. You will focus on the goal of helping us build a great experience for our cloud services, from the customer facing API to the backend data store.
• Work towards weekly milestones on the development of high-visibility, high-quality web products
• Conduct ongoing systems analysis and perform routine maintenance
• Collaborate with the dev team to assess feasibility and priority of new features
• Participate in testing regularly scheduled releases (think continuous development and deployment)
• Write and maintain proper documentation
• Collaborate with systems engineering to optimize scale, network efficiency and problem resolution
• Stay current with relevant technologies, proactively develop and suggest architecture changes
• Commitment to getting it done... properly, the first time

 Technical characteristics:

• Strong familiarity with computing and programming theory
• Excellent knowledge and experience with object-oriented programming
• Detailed understanding of database schema and an accurate image of data formats
• Experience with building and measuring performance of web services; SOAP, XML, REST and JSON Experience with HTML5, CSS3 and related debugging and automation tools
• Experience with JavaScript based UI frameworks, ex. Sencha products, node.js
• Experience with scripting languages (eg. Perl, Ruby, Python)
• Experience with databases, both SQL and NoSQL variants
• Experience with mobile development and testing
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, OpenStack
• Experience with cloud performance and load automation
• Experience with Opensource software and tools
• Experience with scalability, clustered systems and applications
• Experience with web and application security